Can the Centre hold? Is EU tough enough?
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by Otmar Lahodynsky, Hon. AEJ President
Vienna, September 14, 2023
And what happens in Polish elections in a month's time?
The Vienna Burgtheater (Court Theare) season of...
Getting the timing right
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by Edward Steen, Vienna, September 8, 2023
The sneakier side of the Internet became clear long ago, when Polish priests began suing each other for...
CoE media alerts July 17 – 14, 2023
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Safety of Journalists Weekly 17 - 24 July, 2023
Member States
Poland: Attempts to pressure Wirtualna Polska and Onet. On 23 June 2023, Paweł Kapusta, the...
Press freedom: its enemies and who is for us
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from William Horsley, UK chairman, London, with Kyriakos Pierides, Media Freedom spokesman, Nicosia. July 24, 2023
The AEJ's Belgian Section published an interview with WH,...
Kara-Mursa faces Stalinist 25 years sentence
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by Edward Steen, Vienna, April 18, 2023
Putin's latest unendurably cynical blow to the human spirit was delivered yesterday by sentencing to 25 years the...
WSJ reporter feted and free press defended
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by Edward Steen, Secretary-General, Vienna, April 18, 2023
The Wall Street Journal reports that Lynne Tracy, the newly-appointed U.S. ambassador to Russia, visited the WSJ's...
Can Ukraine destroy Putin? The case for optimism.
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When the US government offered to help Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky evacuate as Russia was attacking Kyiv, Zelensky responded: "The fight is here. I...
UK govt planned to allow Wagner SLAPP against BBC
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by Edward Steen, Vienna March 21, 2023
Putin’s private, sanctioned warlord, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 61, ex-jailbird, hot-dog salesman, now billionaire founder of the murderous Wagner Group, ...
UN testimony on Russia playing the victim in Ukraine
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Testimony to UN Security Council on Russian hate speech
By Timothy Snyder
Evidence to UN Security Council session on 14/03/23 called by Russian Federation to discuss...
Orbán’s latest assault on Hungarian journalists
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling Fidesz party have spent years turning Hungary’s media environment into their playground — not through outright repression,...